Nursing Home Quality Improvement Campaign
As America's population ages and the first of the "baby boomers" turn 60 years old, nursing homes and stakeholders are coming together to improve the quality of care and quality of life for those living or recuperating in America's nursing homes.
Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes is a two year, coalition-based campaign concerned with how we care for elderly and disabled citizens. This voluntary campaign:
- Monitors key indicators of nursing home care quality
- Promotes excellence in caregiving for nursing home residents
- Acknowledges the critical role nursing home staff have in providing care
The campaign builds on the success of other quality initiatives like Quality First, the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI), and the culture change movement. Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes will assess progress toward achieving the following measurable goals:
- Reducing high risk pressure ulcers;
- Reducing the use of daily physical restraints;
- Improving pain management for longer term nursing home residents;
- Improving pain management for short stay, post-acute nursing home residents;
- Establishing individual targets for improving quality;
- Assessing resident and family satisfaction with the quality of care;
- Increasing staff retention; and
- Improving consistent assignment of nursing home staff, so that residents regularly receive care from the same caregivers.
Nursing homes can access technical assistance and guidance from quality experts in reaching their targeted goals. The campaign will report on providers' overall, or aggregate, progress - and these reports will help inform consumers' long-term care choices.
Webinar Presentations
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Feb 21, 2008
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Jan 8, 2008
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